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1,186 Hall of Fame links and 2,008 Candidates.
We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
web.mit.edu
1164 peak points
58 submissions · 51 people · 18.4 years
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
norvig.com
586 peak points
32 submissions · 32 people · 18.6 years
Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
www.w3.org
387 peak points
25 submissions · 22 people · 18.3 years
Choose Boring Technology (2015)
mcfunley.com
1357 peak points
44 submissions · 41 people · 11.4 years
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Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
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